This policy is consistent with the State Technology Law § 208
as added by Chapters 442 and 491 of the Laws of 2005. This policy requires
notification to affected New York residents and nonresidents. New York State
values the protection of private information of individuals. The municipality
is required to notify an individual when data, which is maintained by the
municipality and contains the individual's private information, has been,
or is reasonably believed to have been, compromised.

The municipality, after consulting with the State's Office of Cyber
Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC) to determine the
scope of the breach and restoration measures of its compromised data, must
notify an individual when it has been determined that there has been, or is
reasonably believed to have been, a compromise of the individual's private
information through unauthorized disclosure.

Notification may be delayed if a law enforcement agency determines that
the notification impedes a criminal investigation. In such case, notification
will be delayed only as long as needed to determine that notification no longer
compromises any investigation.

Electronic notice, provided that the person to whom notice
is required has expressly consented to receiving notice in electronic form
and a log of each notification is kept by the municipality that notifies affected
persons in such form;

Substitute notice, if the municipality demonstrates to
the State Attorney General that the cost of providing notice would exceed
$250,000, that the affected class of persons to be notified exceeds 500,000,
or that the municipality does not have sufficient contact information. The
following constitute sufficient substitute notice:

The municipality must notify the Attorney General and the Consumer Protection
Board, whenever notification to a New York resident is necessary, as to the
timing, content and distribution of the notices and approximate number of
affected persons.

Regardless of the method by which notice is provided, the notice must
include contact information for the municipality making the notification and
a description of the categories of information that were, or are reasonably
believed to have been, acquired by a person without valid authorization, including
specification of which of the elements of personal information and private
information were, or are reasonably believed to have been, so acquired.

When more than 5,000 New York residents must be notified at one time,
then the municipality must notify the consumer reporting agencies as to the
timing, content and distribution of the notices and the approximate number
of affected individuals. This notice, however, will be made without delaying
notice to the individuals.

Any person which, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit
basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling
or evaluating consumer credit information or other information on consumers
for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties, and which
uses any means or facility of interstate commerce for the purpose of preparing
or furnishing consumer reports. The State Attorney General is responsible
for compiling a list of consumer reporting agencies and furnishing the list
upon request to the municipality.

Personal information in combination with any one or more of the following
data elements, when either the personal information or the data element is
not encrypted or encrypted with an encryption key that has also been acquired: